Re: Unable to build current CVS: coreutils.pot not built

[Ed Avis]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Paul Eggert wrote:

>>shouldn't the configure script have a 'checking for gettext' stage?
>
>When you check source out directly from CVS, you're assumed to be an
>expert, and to have the correct build tools even if they're not on
>the standard list of tools all users are assumed to have.  (The set
>of "expert" tools includes CVS itself.  :-) The "checking for" stuff
>is designed more for non-experts, who are assumed to have tarballs
>instead of checking things out directly from CVS.

That makes perfect sense.  So when I check out of CVS, am I getting a
slightly different code base from what goes into the tarballs?

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>